Genres and Subgenres

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Genres and Subgenres

• Classifying Stories

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Genres and Subgenres

• Texts can be separated into groups
• called genres and subgenres.

Text
Genre
Subgenre
Banana
is a Food
is a Fruit
Harry Potter Book
is Fiction
is Fantasy
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Genres

• Fiction creative or imaginative writing.
• Nonfiction writing that is true or factual.
• Folklore stories once passed down orally.
• Usually will say retold by or adapted by
• Dramas plays or scripts.
• Poetry writing concerned with the beauty of
  language.
• We will focus on the first three.

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Fiction Subgenres
Fiction
Fantasy
Realistic Fiction
Science Fiction
Historical Fiction
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• Realistic Fiction stories that could be true,
  but arent.
• Science Fiction has aliens, advanced technology,
  or is set in the future.
• Historical Fiction a made up story set around a
  real event or person from history.
• Fantasy has monsters, magic, or super powers.

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Nonfiction Subgenres
Nonfiction
Informational Writing
Persuasive Writing
Biography
Autobiography
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• Informational Writing provides facts or
  information.
• Autobiography ones life story written by
  oneself.
• Auto Self Bio Life Graphy Writing
• Biography ones life story written by someone
  else.
• Persuasive Writing meant to influence the reader.

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Folklore Subgenres
Folklore
Fable
Fairy Tale
Tall Tale
Myth
Legend
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• Fable short story with talking animals a
  moral.
• Moral lesson of the story (clearly stated).
• Myth has gods goddesses may account for the
  creation of something.
• Tall Tale Funny story set in the Wild West main
  characters size or skill exaggerated.
• Fairy Tale has magic and/or talking animals.
• Legend a story that might be true, but is
  exaggerated.
• Usually says Retold by or Adapted by

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Fairytales Fantasies

• Both have monsters, magic, or talking animals.
• Whats the difference?
• Fairytales are part of the oral tradition.
• Usually it will say retold by or adapted by.
• Fairytales often start Once Upon a Time.

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Tips for Identifying

1. Find the main genre first
2. Look for details that reveal subgenre

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• The Lion and the Mouse
• Retold by Jerry Pinkney
• A Lion was sleeping when a Mouse woke him up.
  The Lion was about to eat him when the Mouse
  said, Free me and I shall never forget it who
  knows? I may help you some day." The Lion
  laughed so much at the idea of the Mouse being
  able to help him, that he let him go. Some time
  later the Lion was caught in a hunters trap. The
  little Mouse happened to pass by and, seeing the
  trapped Lion, he gnawed through the ropes and
  freed him. Little friends can be a big help.

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• War Brides
• By Helen Bryan
• 1939 as Britain prepares for war with Germany
  in World War II, the lives of five young women
  are about to collide in the sleepy Sussex
  village. Together they will face hardship,
  passion and danger, forming bonds of friendship
  that will inspire a desperate plan, And, fifty
  years later, an act of revenge ...

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• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• Adapted by Howard Pyle
• In this work, Pyle sorts through the many
  folktales concerning the mythical Robin Hood, who
  may have been a real person, and made them
  suitable for children. Robin Hood's dashing acts
  of wealth redistribution (from the rich to the
  poor) have captured the imagination and
  fascination of millions of delighted readers
  through the ages.

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• The Best Book of Sharks
• by Claire Llewellyn
• This beautiful book offers insight into the
  deep-sea lives of one of natures deadliest
  killing machines. Learn where sharks live, what
  they feed on, how they bear their young.

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• Escape From Earth (OASIS)
• by Ivis Bo Davis
• LEAVE EARTH OR DIE the electromagnetic field
  around the Earth is fading away. Soon the planet
  will burn, and everything and everyone on the
  planet will die. Deep Space Vessel Trisznov is
  the first human interstellar colony ship, and she
  is nearly ready to launch in search of a new
  habitable planet to colonize among the stars...

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• In My Time A Personal Political Memoir
• by Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney

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• Pecos Bill
• by Steven Kellogg and Laura Robb
• After falling off his parents wagon as a baby,
  Pecos Bill is raised by coyotes. He then becomes
  the toughest cowboy in the Wild West by wrestling
  giant bulls and outrunning a daemon horse.

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• Eclipse
• by Stephenie Meyer
• The story of Bella Swan and her vampire love,
  Edward Cullen. The novel explores Bella's choice
  between her love for Edward and her friendship
  with werewolf Jacob Black, along with her dilemma
  of leaving mortality behind in a terrorized
  atmosphere, a result of mysterious vampire
  attacks in Seattle.

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• Perseus The Hunt for Medusa's Head
• Adapted by Paul D. Storrie
• Could a monster whose very look turns men to
  stone be too perilous even for the son of Zeus?
  King Polydectes wants to get rid of young
  Perseus. So he tricks the young hero into
  performing an impossible task slaying the
  snake-haired monster Medusa. But as the son of
  Zeus, king of the gods, Perseus has many powerful
  allies. Will Perseus' strength and courage allow
  him to do the impossible?

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• A People's History of the United States
• by Howard Zinn
• Zinn tells the untold history of the United
  States by focusing on the unrepresented minority
  groups women, Native Americans, and African
  Americans. He covers the Bill of Rights to
  Clintons presidency and everything in between.